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[listersgirl]

Question for you all: if someone wanted to create a slideshow of photos on a Mac (but not through the internet), preferably with the ability to set the length of time that each photo would stay up, what program would you use? What if it were a PC?

I...feel like this is totally obvious, and I'm just missing it completely.

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[par-avion.livejournal.com]

This ended up sounding defensive, which wasn't what I intended. If you only need to show/project the slideshow, then powerpoint will work fine. But if you need to distribute the slideshow, if people are expected to download the slideshow and watch it, you are better off using a different program. Even transferring the slideshow between computers get tricky, because Powerpoint loses track of the music.

Specifically, I was thinking of this recent discussion: http://community.livejournal.com/vidding/1013504.html

I see that someone suggested WMM. If you export with the right settings, that will look and sound fine.

Macs can play back .wmv files -- there is a free plugin for Quicktime called Flip4Mac that works much better than the old WMP for OSX.

[listersgirl]

It's just for display. In fact, it's just so that people have something to look at while sound clips (on a different program) are playing. :) But I feel much more competent now.